Why is Null making his own forum software instead of using an existing open source alternative?

The open source ones have political trappings or are garbage. Writing a forum guarantees freedom from political bullshit and a featureset actually tailored to the specific KF use cases as well as assuring the license (or parts of it) can't be rugpulled like Xenforo decided to do.

Also coding is fun and writing useful software with a userbase is a good thing to go on a CV.
 
The open source ones have political trappings or are garbage. Writing a forum guarantees freedom from political bullshit and a featureset actually tailored to the specific KF use cases as well as assuring the license (or parts of it) can't be rugpulled like Xenforo decided to do.

Also coding is fun and writing useful software with a userbase is a good thing to go on a CV.
This pretty much. From a technical standpoint, open source projects can be compiled by everyone and people willing to go through the codebase can find exploits, depending on the work that they actually want to put in.
 
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there's plenty reasoning
  1. autistic terms like what ducktales4gameboy said
  2. lack of open source software that is actually fun and easy to use/configure (closest thing to that i found is mybb)
  3. since you're already familiar with your own softwares codebase you can easily make changes without everything going ruckus
  4. since it's programmed in rust it will piss off trannies
 
Ok, I guess I was mistaken in my assumption that an available open source license couldn't become a problem.
 
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